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Creating the Institution-Specific Writing Guide.
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Jeske, Jeff – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1993
Discusses the development of Guilford College's writing guide. Discusses benefits of the guide: it offers important information and resources; it promotes a common language about writing; it articulates common standards; and it provides the entire college with ownership of the writing enterprise. (RS)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Higher Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Across the Curriculum
Helping TAs across the Curriculum Teach Writing: An Additional Use for the "TA Handbook."
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Strenski, Ellen – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1992
Recommends providing copy about undergraduate writing for publication in the campus "TA Handbook." Discusses the advantages of incorporating information about thinking-writing processes, and makes suggestions on the type of information needed by teaching assistants. (PRA)
Descriptors: Guides, Higher Education, Teaching Assistants, Writing Across the Curriculum
Writing Programs Outside the English Department: An Assessment of a Five-Year Program.
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McMullen, Judith Q.; Wellman, J. Douglas – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1990
Evaluates the effectiveness of a writing improvement program outside the English department. Finds that the program prepared students for writing on the job. Considers changes in the writing program to make it a true writing-across-the-curriculum program. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Improvement
Finding Out What They Are Writing: A Method, Rationale and Sample for Writing-across-the-Curriculum Research.
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Huot, Brian – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1992
Details a method and rationale for unearthing hidden curricula in departments, colleges, or schools to provide the information necessary for informed decisions about the teaching of writing throughout the university. Describes information about writing within the disciplines gathered at the School of Social Work. (PRA)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Methodology, Research Needs, Writing Across the Curriculum
Writing across the Curriculum: Transforming the Academy?
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Cornell, Cynthia; Klooster, David J. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1990
Discusses why, despite successes in other universities, some writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs are struggling to survive. Discusses faulty assumptions about WAC and competing priorities within the university. Concludes that WAC forces institutions to reexamine their identity. (RS)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Administration, College Faculty, Higher Education
WAC at Century's End: Haunted by the Ghost of Fred Newton Scott.
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McLeod, Susan H. – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1997
Discusses two danger signs for writing across the curriculum (WAC) program survival, dealing with their cross-curricular structure, and their heavy dependence on just one person for their health and continuation. Outlines two cases from the history of writing instruction at the University of Michigan providing a precautionary tale for both kinds…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, English Departments, Financial Support, Higher Education
Writing Workshops and the Mechanics of Change.
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Fulwiler, Toby – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1989
Describes the mechanics of workshops designed to introduce new ideas about teaching with writing to instructors in all subject areas. Focuses on: leader qualities; workshop content; and logistics (setting, size, time, and equipment). (MM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Process Approach (Writing), Program Administration